Data Philanthropy: Corporate Responsibility With Strategic Value?

Data philanthropy is a corporate gift of data, data resources such as analysts, and/or data technologies such as software, computing power, and storage. Yet data philanthropy is unlike other corporate philanthropy because data assets are non-rivalrous and can be shared without diminishment. Data can even become more valuable through sharing and collaboration. This paper explores data philanthropy and how it can benefit both donor firms and society through a model and several propositions.